Farewell to pretty colours!! CI#208

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Tonight I'm joining in with the Colour INKspiration crew and our awesome colour combination!!

This week we are saying farewell to our In Colours from the last 2 years - and what a bunch of gorgeous colours they are!! 

I decided to use them all on the one card......

I've torn strips of each of the cardstocks and layered them onto a Basic White square for the card front.

And then I used Stampin Blends to colours the flowers and leaves from the Covered in Flowers Accents.

The greeting comes from the Banner Sayings set and punched using the Three Banner Punch.

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

Farewell to Incolors

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Chain Card Swap C Danielle

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Today I'm joining the amazing Card Swap Chain Blog Hop with 10 amazing Australian cardmakers.  Our blog hop today is a celebration of the amazing cards we sent and received when we embarked on a fun journey sending cards to each other over a period of months.  It's a card version of "Chinese Whispers".  Each of us designed a card and sent if off to one of the other participants. That person then CASED the card and sent their own version to the next person.  To CASE is to Copy and Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit.  Each person's card made it's way around all 10 of us until finally a verson came home to the designer.  And Now, we are sharing these gorgeous card designs with YOU.  Enjoy the amazingness of everyone's cards and designs.

Today we are sharing a wonderful card designed by Danielle  in Chain Swap C.

 Follow the blog hop ALL the way around to see the evolution of her gorgeous card.

This card features a stunning stamp set that was used in our Virtual Card Retreat - there are so many amazing and beautiful images and greetings in this set!  It also features the amazing die bundle which was also used for the Virtual Card Retreat - the Forever Florals available in the online store!  

Here is Danielle's original card!!  The background papers have been flipped by the time this card made it to me!  

Make sure you keep hopping to see this amazing evolution!!

Forever Florals Chain Swap

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Nature Walk Inspiration CTC#566

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Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)

This week, we are CASEING the colours of the stunning Nature Walk paper.

I love all these natural colours, and I've also used the layout for the card on the left of the landing page.

I have used Old Olive for the card base, and a corresponding Old Olive paper from the Moonlit Flora designer series paper collection.  I've stamped onto the designer paper using Old Olive ink for the little lines, and also Night of Navy for the background leaf.  

The stunning leaves from the Fern and Flora dies were cut from Cloud Cover, Pretty Peacock and Secret Sea cardstocks.  

and finally the greeting and label were stamped using Pecan Pie ink.  

The inside of the card features the pieces of paper I ripped off the edge of the front, as well as some more background stamping.

Up next is the extraordinary Rochelle

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of great ideas!

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Fern and Flora inspired by Nature Walk

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Chain Card Swap B Genna

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn

Today I'm joining the amazing Card Swap Chain Blog Hop with 10 amazing Australian cardmakers.  Our blog hop today is a celebration of the amazing cards we sent and received when we embarked on a fun journey sending cards to each other over a period of months.  It's a card version of "Chinese Whispers".  Each of us designed a card and sent if off to one of the other participants. That person then CASED the card and sent their own version to the next person.  To CASE is to Copy and Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit.  Each person's card made it's way around all 10 of us until finally a verson came home to the designer.  And Now, we are sharing these gorgeous card designs with YOU.  Enjoy the amazingness of everyone's cards and designs.

Today we are sharing a wonderful card designed by Genna in Chain Swap B

 Follow the blog hop ALL the way around to see the evolution of her gorgeous card.

I loved the torn edges of this card as part of the background features!!  

What a great way to show off gorgeous papers as well as a fabulous texture in the centre.

All the leaves are actually die cut from the fabulous Greenery Lane Washi Tape - I love their soft watercolour look!! 

And here is the starting card from Genna! I think there have been some changes along the way with this one!

Make sure you keep hopping to see this amazing evolution!!

Greenery Lane Chain Swap

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.